GNU bug report logs - #22107
this-command-keys no longer returns prefix argument

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com

Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 15:43:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 22111

Found in versions 25.0.50, 25.1

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 22107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#22107: 25.1; Wrong docstring for this-single-command-keys
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 20:49:23 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com, rgm <at> gnu.org, 22107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:34:48 -0500
> 
> > So how about saying a few words about the meaning of the return value
> > of internal-echo-keystrokes-prefix?  I think it's important enough to
> > have that at least documented in comments.
> 
> It's used as a proxy for "we're in the middle of a command-with-prefix,

When it returns non-nil, I presume?

> which may be using the `prefix-arg' variable or any other variable".

But this means we can never be sure a non-nil value actually mean the
user typed a prefix-arg command, is that true?  Do we want to treat
the "other" prefixes (which ones, btw?) as prefix-arg in this case?
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